Nazim Terzioglu
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| Born | 1912 Kayseri, Turkey |
| Died | September 20, 1976 Silivri/Istanbul, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Istanbul University |
| Doctoral advisor | Constantin Carathéodory |
Professor Nazim Terzioglu (Kayseri, 1912 – Silivri, September 20, 1976) was one of the first mathematicians in Turkish academia.
Nazim Terzioglu completed his primary education in his place of birth, Kayseri. He started his secondary education in Istanbul and then continued in Izmir until he graduated from the Izmir High School in 1930. At that time, the Turkey's most qualified instructors in mathematics were working in the Izmir High School. Among the alumni of the same school, there were valuable mathematicians such as Ord. Prof. Dr. Cahit Arf (1910–1997) and Prof. Dr. Tevfik Oktay Kabakcioglu (1910–1971). In those years, the successful young people were sent abroad by the government for higher education upon Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's request. Terzioglu passed the relevant exam and left for Germany to study mathematics on behalf of the Ministry of Education of Turkey. He pursued his higher education in the University of Göttingen and Munich University. He completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of the famous mathematician of that period, Prof. Dr. Constantin Carathéodory (1873–1950), who was a member of a Greek family in Fener, Istanbul.
Upon completion of his education in Germany, Terzioglu began to work as an assistant of Mathematical Mechanics and Advanced Geometry in the Institute of Mathematics of the Faculty of Science of Istanbul University in 1937. He became associate professor in 1942 and the following year, he was appointed to professorship in the newly established Institute of Mathematics of the Faculty of Science of Ankara University (1943). After spending two years in this faculty, he returned to Istanbul University as a professor (1944). He worked as the Dean of the Faculty of Science in 1950–1952. During the same period, Terzioglu established some of the scientific institutions for which Turkey had felt the major need until those years. These are the Institute for Geophysics of Istanbul University, the Institute for Hydrobiology in Istanbul Baltalimani and the Cosmic Ray Institute which Terzioglu founded at Uludag, Bursa in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Adnan Sokullu and Prof. Dr. Sait Akpinar. After his deanship in the Faculty of Science, he became the Chairman of the Analysis Division of the Institute of Mathematics in the same faculty (1953).
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